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Thinking of "programming" as a completely separate field, to be "done" by specialists only, is highly unfortunate. All "programming" really is, is formulating what you want done pr…

Good way to keep resources locked up in zombie companies unable to generate even 0% return, by letting them roll over loans despite destroying value. Instead of flushing out the st…

And if two commands get stored in quick succession, such that the first results in a state that renders the second impossible? Particularly if some of the balance updates in the fi…

IPv6 doesn't fundamentally offer end users anything far beyond the current standards. I'm imagining a protocol for less tightly coupled endpoints could be written to, while the "sw…

Which is a pretty good indication that all meaningful solutions to the spying problems, need to work at a level more fundamental than government. Routing around them, or rendering …

Even by the "standards" of Newsweek, this article is supremely stupid. Current high level languages make so few concessions to the underlying execution engine, that all they really…

It's not "our own" government, for any "our own" that purports to include me. It is a junta with enough guns to have their way with people across a continent. Pretending otherwise …

The relevant question isn't whether it is "breaking things" in the abstract, but whether it is breaking things in a way meaningfully detrimental to end users. Or, if you really wan…

All "language" is not the same. To be reliably and consistently machine executable, a language needs to facilitate manipulations that are logically rigorous. While in a language fo…

One threat that is getting bigger in the Bay Area, is the ever increased concentration and dependence on start ups. Most of whom are not living of anything remotely resembling cash…

The kind of aggressive court interference talked about in the article, will (or at least should) be the catalyst to make that happen. Anonymous comments really ought to be hosted a…

Like any other scheme to make commenting more expensive (resource wise), it implicitly makes the assumption that the value of what one has to say, somehow correlates with how much …

Are they also going to force participants not to blog, talk about, or otherwise disseminate the information they gleaned there? Otherwise, this childishness is just another act by …

Compared to most of Europe, one of the things the US has to recommend it, is easier access to personal bankruptcy, jingle mailing underwater house keys etc. Of course, given the ob…

Not just waiting.... If you have the ability to insert backdoors on widely used hardware with no realistic alternative implementations, without anyone other than a very select few …

I simply cannot fathom how the NSA could hope to intercept and physically mess with every single piece of $10 to $10,000 router sold. If true, and I have a hard time believing it i…

The additional layer of redirection, at least conceptually enables the use of application specific, or pluggable, vDOMs and/or diffing strategies.

I guess the takeaway is: Don't operate Big Data companies out of Europe..... Pack up your bags, apply for YC and move to SV instead... All harassing publicly famous entities will a…

Another is Beck's "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns." Just like Smalltalk-80, it's a book relevant for anyone writing software, almost regardless of language and discipline.

And they did all this despite their paying customers not wanting their coffee that way? Simply because they wanted to, above else, be as nasty as they could to people, never mind l…

Outside of emergency rooms and acute care, people have quite a bit of choice as to when to see a doctor, and whom to see. It is conceptually little different than auto repair in th…

Rather, tort reform, or more accurately some sort of limitations of what one can drag the civil courts system into, boils down to looking at who wrote the Bill of Rights, and makin…

And as she didn't specifically ask for coffee served at a specific temperature, McDonald's had no way of knowing what temperature she preferred. What McDonald's did have, however, …

Reviews weighted by trust, seem to do quite well in most places where they are employed. From Amazon and Ebay sellers to Uber drivers to College rankings. Even yelp rankings, which…

And what kind of reputation, do you think an Amazon seller who makes potential customers sign "no review" contracts, will get? There's nothing magical about the medical field, that…